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2020 Hall of Fame Ballot Series: Brad Penny

Five facts about Brad Penny:

Brad Penny was named California League MVP in 1998. In 1999, he was traded by the Arizona Diamondbacks to the Florida Marlins. In his first game in the Marlins organization, he pitched part of the first no-hitter in Portland (Maine) Sea Dogs history.

Brad Penny was named to two All-Star teams, in 2006 and 2007. He started the 2006 All-Star game for the National League.

Penny received Cy Young votes once in his career, in 2007. He finished third in NL Cy Young voting that season when he led the NL in winning percentage, going 16-4 with a 3.03 ERA in 208 innings pitched.

Brad Penny started and won two games in the 2003 World Series, compiling a 2.19 ERA in 12.1 innings pitched.

Penny ranks in the Marlins' career top 10 in wins (4th with 50), innings pitched (5th with 807.2), ERA (6th with 4.12), and strikeouts (10th with 583).

The first two tables below present Brad Penny's career as measured by Player won-lost records, in and out of context.

Season	Team	Age	Games	pWins	pLosses	pWORL	pWOPA

Basic Player Won-Lost Records
						Value Decomposition
2000	FLO	22	24	7.9	8.5	1.1	0.1
2001	FLO	23	31	12.1	12.2	2.4	0.9
2002	FLO	24	24	8.6	8.8	1.5	0.4
2003	FLO	25	33	10.7	10.8	2.1	0.7
+– 2004		26	24	9.2	8.9	2.3	1.1
	FLO		21	8.4	7.7	2.5	1.5
	LAN		3	0.9	1.2	-0.2	-0.3
2005	LAN	27	29	9.8	9.4	2.4	1.2
2006	LAN	28	34	12.7	11.0	4.1	2.7
2007	LAN	29	33	13.2	9.4	6.0	4.6
2008	LAN	30	19	5.1	8.3	-1.9	-2.8
+– 2009		31	30	10.3	10.7	1.3	-0.1
	BOS		24	7.0	8.2	-0.0	-1.0
	SFN		6	3.3	2.6	1.3	1.0
2010	SLN	32	9	3.7	3.7	0.7	0.3
2011	DET	33	31	10.1	12.3	-0.5	-2.0
2012	SFN	34	22	0.7	0.8	0.0	-0.1
2013	-	35	-	-	-	-	-
2014	MIA	36	8	1.1	1.5	-0.1	-0.3
			------	------	------	------	------
CAREER (reg. season)			351	115.2	116.3	21.6	6.8
			------	------	------	------	------
PostSeason (career)			9	1.7	1.7	0.3	0.1
			------	------	------	------	------
COMBINED			360	117.0	118.0	22.0	6.9

Season	Team	Age	Games	eWins	eLosses	eWORL	eWOPA

Expected Player Won-Lost Records
						Value Decomposition
2000	FLO	22	24	7.6	8.9	0.4	-0.6
2001	FLO	23	31	13.0	11.2	4.4	2.8
2002	FLO	24	24	8.0	9.4	0.4	-0.7
2003	FLO	25	33	11.1	10.4	3.0	1.6
+– 2004		26	24	9.3	8.9	2.5	1.3
	FLO		21	8.4	7.7	2.5	1.5
	LAN		3	0.9	1.2	-0.0	-0.2
2005	LAN	27	29	10.3	8.9	3.4	2.2
2006	LAN	28	34	11.8	11.9	2.4	0.9
2007	LAN	29	33	12.8	9.8	5.3	3.9
2008	LAN	30	19	5.5	7.9	-1.1	-2.0
+– 2009		31	30	10.4	10.6	1.7	0.3
	BOS		24	7.2	7.9	0.5	-0.5
	SFN		6	3.2	2.7	1.2	0.8
2010	SLN	32	9	3.7	3.6	0.8	0.4
2011	DET	33	31	10.1	12.3	-0.5	-2.1
2012	SFN	34	22	0.6	0.9	-0.2	-0.3
2013	-	35	-	-	-	-	-
2014	MIA	36	8	1.0	1.6	-0.4	-0.6
			------	------	------	------	------
CAREER (reg. season)			351	115.2	116.3	22.1	7.2
			------	------	------	------	------
PostSeason (career)			9	1.7	1.8	0.2	-0.0
			------	------	------	------	------
COMBINED			360	116.8	118.1	22.3	7.2

This is Brad Penny's first year on the Hall-of-Fame ballot.

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It is an honor for Brad Penny simply to appear on a Hall-of-Fame ballot.

Player Won-Lost Records and Brad Penny

Not to be rude or disrespectful, but Brad Penny is not a Hall-of-Famer. He was, however, a fine pitcher for several years in the early part of this century. In fact, there is a seven-year stretch, from 2001 - 2007, over which he was one of the best 25 starting pitchers in baseball, at least as measured by eWins over positional average (eWOPA) earned as a starting pitcher.


Top 25 Starting Pitchers, 2001- 2007 ranked by eWOPA (SP only)
	Player	pWins	pLosses	pWOPA
1	Pedro J. Martinez	71.7	50.6	22.2
2	Roy Halladay	78.2	58.8	20.5
3	Johan Santana	69.5	51.4	19.2
4	Roy Oswalt	84.3	66.4	19.2
5	Randy 'Big Unit' Johnson	82.5	64.6	19.1
6	Curt Schilling	80.5	63.0	18.7
7	Tim Hudson	90.2	73.9	17.6
8	Roger Clemens	74.5	60.7	14.9
9	Brandon Webb	67.0	53.2	14.8
10	Derek Lowe	75.7	62.0	14.8
11	Mike Mussina	83.2	70.0	14.5
12	Jason Schmidt	73.0	60.1	14.0
13	Greg Maddux	89.0	76.3	14.0
14	Andy Pettitte	78.9	67.3	12.8
15	Javier Vazquez	92.6	81.3	12.7
16	Carlos Zambrano	72.5	61.8	11.8
17	Mark Buehrle	92.0	82.0	11.3
18	Jake Peavy	67.5	57.7	10.9
19	C.C. Sabathia	83.6	74.7	10.2
20	Brad Penny	71.0	62.2	9.9
21	Kelvim Escobar	54.8	46.1	9.5
22	Josh Beckett	60.4	52.4	8.9
23	John Smoltz	41.2	33.3	8.6
24	Brad Radke	65.8	58.2	8.6
25	A.J. Burnett	63.9	56.6	8.4

Brad Penny did not have a Hall-of-Fame career. But he did have a fine major-league career that is worth remembering and celebrating for what it was.

Article last updated: December 11, 2019

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